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Chapter 22 - Overdrive Protocol

There's no countdown.No ceremony.No anthem.

Only a rumble.

Low. Ancient. Global.

Every Syndicate satellite. Every rogue stream. Every hacked billboard.

Broadcasting one thing:

"FINAL CIRCUIT INITIATED."

Location: The OVERDRIVE TRACK

Not a city.Not a country.A global driftline, built in layers of digital and reality.

Floating roads.Exploding gravity.Terrains shifting mid-turn.Time-delay corners.Anti-drift zones.Zero-rule loops.

A track so wild, it needed 3 supercomputers just to hold shape.

And at its center?

The Veilstar Reaper.ERROR‑0.1.The Syndicate's final driver.No face.No voice.Just rage, engine-born.

Omega – Twinshift Mode: Synced

Marcel locked eyes with Adrian through the HUD split.

"This is it, bro."

"Then let's make every millisecond hurt."

They launched.

And time tore open.

Sector One: Flamecurve

A corner literally on fire—rising flames flickering like ghost memories. The Reaper hit it first, launching off a flame burst, vanishing mid-air—

—then reappearing in front of them.

Adrian snapped:

"He's glitching the track physics!"

"So we glitch back!"

Marcel cut power mid-drift. Let the car stall for a full second.

Time slipped.

Omega phased through the glitch like smoke.

They were learning faster than the code.

Sector Two: The Zero Loop

A dead-end spiral.Only exit? Drive upside-down through a vertical current.

The Reaper tried brute force.

Omega?They played jazz.

Adrian pulsed the rear dampeners.

Marcel spun the handbrake blind.

They hit the current backward, tires screaming, sparks ripping reality—

And landed in front of the Reaper.

Now they led.

Sector Three: Memory Kill Zone

A section that scrambles identity.HUDs blackout.Voice comms jam.No vision.No logic.

Only gut.

Adrian went silent.

Marcel was alone.

The world spun.

The track vanished.

Just heartbeat.

Then—

A whisper.

"Drift it, little bro. Even in the dark."

He closed his eyes.

Drifted by feel.

Fingers. Ears. Muscle memory. Legacy.

Omega cut through the dark like a ghost remembering its name.

They cleared the kill zone.

The Reaper didn't.

Final Sector: The Apex Shatter

A 720-degree spiral made of collapsing code.

The rules here?

None.

Every car for itself.Only one crosses.

Marcel grit his teeth. "We end this."

Adrian: "Together."

They hit Overdrive.

Not nitro.

Not boost.

The protocol that bends the car to the soul.

Omega split into twin afterimages—Marcel and Adrian as light-echoes.

The Reaper tried to catch them.

But they weren't driving.

They were becoming the car.

The finish line exploded.

Omega crossed.

Reaper shattered.

Syndicate feed—cut.

The Afterburn

Silence.

Then cheers.From rooftops.From circuits.From places the Syndicate had silenced for years.

Marcel stepped out.Ayaka waiting.Racers surrounding him.

A new flag lifted—painted in black, gold, and memory:

"Driftforce Lives."

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